Fundamentals

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

mmWave-backed fixed wireless access is making gains outside of dense urban areas Fixed wireless access is emerging as a primary driver of new revenues for mobile operators. It’s how Verizon …

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

The U.S. moved comparatively early on making mmWave spectrum available for 5G services with Verizon launching a pre-standard fixed wireless access service in the second half of 2018. Since then, …

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the …

The wake-up signal was first introduced in 3GPP Release 15 In 3GPP Release 15, a paging signal sent over the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that “wakes up” a user …

Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, …

Private 5G networks change the security landscape, these experts contend, by converging siloed cellular, IoT and enterprise security needs.

European aviation and aerospace firm Airbus effectively headlined the latest Private Networks Forum (PNF), hosted by RCR Wireless and Enterprise IoT Insights, in May, as the premier (the first, at …

Right, let’s see how good my notes are two days later; shortly following a shot-across-the-bows from a top analyst at a London private 5G event (Omdia’s Pablo Tomasi at Private …

This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at …

Service function chaining helps automate traffic flow between services in a virtual network In order for operators to traffic steer using a sequence of multiple Network Function Virtualizations (NFVs), they must …

Time to set the record straight on cellular 5G and Wi-Fi 6/7, a panel of Industry 4.0 luminaries suggested at Private Networks Forum (PNF) a couple of weeks back; these …

Three technology partners, one private network and robot tractors: At a U.S. smart vineyard, these were the seeds of success for a precision agriculture use case. Intel, Federated Wireless and …

Operators are looking for cost reduction in both CAPEX and OPEX — and RAN is one of the biggest cost factors for operators. It is also one of the most …

What to say about the state of the private 5G market – about the state of ‘things’, if you like, at the top-end of the IoT game? I was asked …

It has been a month since Unabiz was declared the new owner of IoT tech provider and network operator Sigfox. And it has been a couple of weeks (such is …

LitePoint exec: ‘Open RAN is good for consumers and for operators’ operational costs’ According to a 2022 Wind River report, Open RAN (O-RAN) has the potential to deliver up to …

For the metaverse to go mainstream, there are questions that need answering around standardization, market development, governance and UI The metaverse isn’t a single thing. It’s a confluence of technologies, …

With 5G deployments well underway around the world and the technology beginning the shift from its first, Non Standalone iteration to end-to-end 5G, the focus of standards work continues to …

The MDT solution taps user equipment (UE) to collect field measurements Introduced in 3GPP Rel-10, Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) is a standardized mechanism designed to enable operators to use …

Carriers face a number of operational challenges as 5G continues to evolve and mature, both in terms of deploying and running new 5G networks as well as in managing the …